Blame McDonald’s

I was browsing YouTube and came across this video of Morgan Sperlock from Super Size Me that someone had put the bonus feature from there on their YouTube page. You know the one where he puts several burgers and fries into jars and watches how they all mold except for the McDonald’s fries.

Then I saw another video of this woman over at diet health channel who used to be fat but hello, she’s not skinny yet… talking about how bad McDonald’s is and she carries around a 4 year old happy meal.

I am not siding with the fast food industry. And I’m especially not siding with health experts because I’m constantly seeing all these obese people telling me how to lose weight when they are fat themselves. I had a friend who passed away who was a vegetarian and she was constantly putting me down for eating fast food yet I was 150lbs and she was more in the neighborhood of 400lbs.

All I’m saying is, fast food has been around for decades. Actually the first McDonald’s opened up in 1940 so there has been fast food for 69 years. So if eating McDonald’s causes such obesity then why is it that it’s taken until the 1970’s or 1980’s until people started having issues with their weight?

Yes there has been fatness throughout history. In the last thousand years the only way you could tell the rich was by how fat they were. All the skinny people were skinny because they were so poor and all the kings and queens were fat. Obesity was a sign of wealth. That’s not the case anymore.

But I digress. You cannot blame the fast food industry for your own obesity because it wasn’t the fast food industry that made people fat, people made themselves fat me included. I became obese when I quit smoking and started eating more junk than normal because I wasn’t exercising anymore and I was eating more food because I was exchanging one habit for another. I don’t blame anybody but myself.

When I quit smoking I could’ve done it differently but I didn’t. I was rewarding myself with ice cream, something that I loved but hardly ever ate because I could never afford it because I was spending all of my money on cigarettes. Then I started spending what was my cigarette money on fast food. I could’ve just either saved it and bought groceries maybe or some other treat, maybe video games? But instead, I ate fast food. I had a choice. It was a bad choice but it was mine to make. They weren’t begging me to eat their food.

And yes their “supersize me” offers were just too good to pass up but I didn’t have to. In fact, they have such good price now that I don’t even need a large french fry, I can get a small fry for $1 on their dollar menu. It’s even cheaper now to eat there but you know what? I don’t eat there and I’m still fat. I eat fast food sometimes but it’s not daily. I could probably afford McDonald’s or Taco Bell’s value menu more than I can afford groceries but I choose to buy groceries instead.

I have also chosen to exercise and ride my bike so I am dealing with my obesity by doing something about it and not bitching about how McDonald’s made me fat. Don’t blame others for your own mistakes. After all, they are just trying to make a quick buck but you can hold onto that buck and make a better choice instead. They do have salads after all. Actually when I worked at McDonald’s as a teenager they had salads and they sold a lot of them too.